Building-front column



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK MESKER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BUILDING-FRONT COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 435,849, datedSeptember 2, 1890.

Application filed January 16, 1890. Serial No. 337,066.

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MESKER, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made anew and useful Improvement in Building-Front Columns, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to what are termed an gle-columns, and itconsists, substantially, of a combination of a metallic face and asingle thick side, said side being at tached to said face at the inneredge thereof and being braced from its back to the outer edge of saidface, and more especially as is hereinafter set forth and claimed, aidedby the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in whichFigure l is a front elevation of the improved column, and Fig. 2 anelevation of the inner side thereof; Fig. 3, a horizontal section of thecolumn, and Fig. 4 a horizontal section of the column in positi'on.

The last two views are upon an enlarged scale.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents the column-face. At its outer and inner edges,respectively, it is provided with flanges a and a. Brepresents the side.

(N0 model.)

It is united to the face by means of fastenings b, which pass throughthe flange a into the side, substantially as shown. The side at itsfront face should also abut against the back of the face A to obtain thebest results, and the column is completed by means of the braces C,which at one end are riveted to the face-flange a, and at the other endare bolted to the side B at the back thereof. The side in practice is ofwood. The column-face may be more or less ornamented, as desired.

D represents the wall to which the column is adapted, and the mode ofcombining the column and wall is illustrated generally in Fig. a.

I claim-- The herein-described an gle-colum n, consisting of the flangedface and the side, said side being attached to said face at the inneredge thereof and at its back being braced to said face at the outer edgethereof, as set forth.

Witness my hand this 2d day of January, 1890.

FRANK MESKER.

Witnesses:

C. D. MooDY, D. W. C. SANFORD.

